Earlier today, NDTV reporters Arvind Gunasekar and Saurabh Shukla were beaten up by a mob while reporting in northeast Delhi and were rushed to a hospital.

Two of my colleagues @arvindgunasekar and @saurabhshukla_s were badly beaten by a mob just now in Delhi, they only stopped beating them after realising they are “our people- Hindus”. Absolutely despicable.

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Several journalists tweeted saying Gunasekar and Shukla had been attacked because they were filming a mosque being set on fire.

Just getting word that @arvindgunasekar and @Saurabh_Unmute of @ndtv we beaten up by a mob as they were filming a mosque being set on fire. My friend @Runjhunsharmas was with them and had to plead with the mob to let them go. Arvind is badly hurt, they're on their way to a hosp.

NDTV said there were no police personnel present in the area when its journalists were attacked.

The news channel said Gunasekar was hit on the face and broke a tooth. Shukla was hit on the back with lathis when he intervened to stop Gunasekar from being hit.

NDTV’s Mariyam Alavi was hit on the back while she reporting with Sreenivasan Jain in another part of northeast Delhi, the news channel said. Cameraperson Sushil Rathi also suffered minor injuries.

While violent mobs have been on a rampage in Bhajanpura, Maujpur, Wazirabad, Jaffrabad, Babarpur, Vijay Park, Yamuna Vihar and Gokulpuri since Monday, this is the third day of violence in Northeast Delhi.